Word: swept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resurgence of Islamic fundamentalism, which has profoundly affected other countries in the Middle East, also swept through Iran, where the Shi'ite mullahs have traditionally served as the conscience of the people. The mullahs were scandalized by growing corruption that clearly involved the royal family, by the jet-setting Western ways of Iran's new rich, by the Shah's apparent contempt for the faith to which most of his people belonged. Beyond that, the mullahs were infuriated early last year when the then Premier, Jamshid Amuzegar, canceled the $80 million annual subsidy that they had formerly...
...Crimson, however, were not able to leave the weight events quite as gracefully as Northeastern swept the shot put and placed one-two in the 35-lb. weight throw, an event that Harvard swept last year. Colin Ball's throw of 57 ft., 5 1/2 in. marked a personal best but only earned him a third place...
Freshmen Chip Robie, John Heller, and Joe Somers all swept their matches in three straight games to clinch the Crimson...
Gacy moved on to Chicago and although he was arrested for another sexual offense in 1971, the charges were dropped after the boy failed to appear in court. A year later Gacy remarried. "He swept me off my feet," said his second wife. But Gacy had a bad temper and sometimes broke up furniture in their home. In 1976 the couple were divorced...
...like that-it was just 'Good bye, Kid,' in a most ordinary way under most extraordinary circumstances." In such passages the props of career and success are suddenly swept away, and To Have and Have Not becomes much more than a movie title...